Saturday 30 May 2015

Peter Hill - La Fauvette Passerinette: A Messiaen Premiere, with Birds, Landscapes & Homages (2014) {Delphian}


Peter Hill - La Fauvette Passerinette: A Messiaen Premiere, with Birds, Landscapes & Homages (2014) {Delphian}
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© 2014 Delphian Records | DCD34141
Classical / Piano


Peter Hill’s latest CD for Delphian (DCD 34141) features the premiere of Messiaen’s recently discovered La Fauvette Passerinette, along with music by nine other composers who form part of the Messiaen ‘landscape’, from Ravel and Stockhausen to Dutilleux, Murail and George Benjamin. The CD has been selected as a record of the year in The Sunday Times, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, and Instrumental Choice in BBC Music Magazine.


A new Messiaen work may be the focus here, but this would be an outstanding recital even without that enticement …

Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen’s music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities … The innate poetry and sense of colour that characterise Hill’s complete Messiaen piano cycle are, if anything, even stronger in these new accounts of ‘La Colombe’ and ‘Le Traquet stapazin’ … Whether in Dutilleux or Peter Sculthorpe, Murail or Takemitsu, Hill provides a masterclass in capturing a composer’s idiom with warmth and humanity.

Personnel:
Peter Hill - piano

tracklist:
01 - Maurice Ravel - Oiseaux tristes
02 - Olivier Messiaen - La Colombe
03 - Olivier Messiaen - Piece pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas
04 - Olivier Messiaen - Ile de feu 1
05 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstuck VII
06 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstuck VIII
07 - Julian Anderson - Etude No 1
08 - George Benjamin - Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm
09 - Olivier Messiaen - Le Traquet stapazin
10 - Henri Dutilleux - D'ombre et de silence
11 - Peter Sculthorpe - Stars
12 - Douglas Young - River
13 - Olivier Messiaen - La Fauvette passerinette
14 - Tristan Murail - Cloches d'adieu, et un sourire...
15 - Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch II
16 - Olivier Messiaen - Morceau de lecture a vue

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